Is Faith a Gift or a Reliance? From one essay I recently read came the following: “Ephesians 2:8 – for by grace you are saved, through faith, and this not of yourselves; it is the gift of God; – Grace means salvation comes through Faith which is an unmeritorious gift that is not inherently part of natural man; a…
Did you know God expects us to seek His truth, and to also execute judgment? We find the answer when Jerusalem refused to repent even though God was willing to pardon them if they would (Jeremiah 5:1-4) Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in…
“Love is the fulfilling of the law.” Which law? The Ten Commandments, the breaking of which constitutes the definition of sin (I John 3: 4; Rom. 13: 8-10). Which “love” is it then? It is the love from above–agape love. It is only through agape love that the law can be kept. Natural man without this love cannot keep…
Through the years I have heard more than one person say “Oh, I’m a sinner saved by grace” as they continue to live in their sin. WHAT! Is this really all Christ did at the cross to suffer so that we may remain in our sin and claim we are saved? What did Jesus mean…
The chapter opens by declaring that the thoughts and intents of the Father’s heart are eternal—without beginning, without end, and without alteration. God’s purpose has never wavered across the ages; it is everlasting, unchanging, and certain to reach its fulfillment both in heaven and on earth. His purpose is the very definition of “eternal,” and…
From Worthy Briefs: Worthy Brief – 7/17/2026 Friend, covenant as never meant to be treated casually! Matthew 5:31-32 “Furthermore it has been said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’ 32 But I say to you that whoever divorces his wife for any reason except sexual immorality causes her to commit adultery;…
Long before the first tabernacle was even built how did people worship God? And how did God communicate with man? God is a jealous God (Deuteronomy 4:23,24) and He does not hesitate to tell us in the commandments we are not to set up graven images of any kind, yet across the land we see…
It is written blessed are the eyes that see and the ears that hear, what exactly is seen and heard? The best example given us is found in the calling of Saul on the road to Damascus when Jesus tells him he will be made a minister and a witness to a people he was just delivered…
This world has one major need right now at the beginning of the 21st Century. The world doesn’t need another politician telling the people what they want to hear. The world doesn’t need a steady robust economy to help it through the hard times that have been prophesied upon it. No. The world needs the sons…
The Longing of Life – Purity There is a hope that burns like a refiner’s fire, a hope that purifies the heart, freeing it from the passions and the lusts of this world. “Beloved, now we are the children of God, and it was not yet revealed what we shall be. But we know that…
Christ, the exiled King of the universe, is coming back to this earth to fully establish His government. He will be reigning and ruling through a body of chosen humans, a cadre numbering a few thousand (Revelation 7, 14). The whole creation is waiting “for the manifestation of the sons and daughters of God” (Rom.…
Those who put their trust and hope in God are a blessed people, as they have come to know only God is the one who can deliver them from all their trouble! (Psalm 33:12-20) Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance. The Lord looketh…
The Spirit of truth does not dwell where sin still reigns Sin must die on the cross with Christ before the Spirit of truth will dwell and abide in us. Yet sin is one of the most sensitive subjects—guilt, desperation, shame, and fear often accompany it. Few understand its scriptural definition: “Sin is the transgression…
OH’ what power God has worked through His Son Jesus who was raised from the grave on the third day, and those of us who believe and follow Him will also do the same. (Hosea 6:1-2) Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath…
Seventy-five years on the planet gives me perspective on the nation’s decline into darkness. I have seen the degrading of almost everything in our society. Take music. Secular love songs from 60-70 years ago were about the pains and joys of the heart. Now they are of the “lusts of the flesh.” Economics? Our dollar…
Precious Sheep Of Renown 
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